LA MUSIQUE

Description

After the wide open spaces of L'Horizon and the lyricism of the long tour that followed, Dominique A returns with an album recorded solo at home, as his first album was, sixteen years ago. But, in the meantime, the young man with the sparse songs has become one of the most affirmed talents on the French scene. "It's a formula that is what it is, and I think I'll have to repeat it endlessly: when people asked me what I was doing, I said I was making La Fossette version Red Bull." "In this album, there's the idea of returning to a solitary way of working, with the slight difference that now there are some people likely to listen to me. And also that I don't want to play on a fragility, on a neutrality of singing. I wanted to know what I can give now, at home, with instruments that are more or less similar to the instruments I had before, and with fifteen years of musical experience." DOMINIQUE A In other words, La Musique reveals a Dominique A who is both more unique and more accessible than ever. He still has his melodies that wind in a few notes, his warm voice with a slightly disillusioned lyricism, his oblique and incisive view of our world. We are captivated by devilishly seductive choruses, and at the end of listening, we have tunes full in our heads... Yes, it sounds like pop, but a refined and raw pop at the same time, a joyful, rigorous, radiant, Nordic, melodious, stocky, generous pop... In 1991, Dominique A produced a "deaf record," a 33-rpm pressed in 150 copies. Arnaud Viviant and Bernard Lenoir, on Inter, fell under its spell. The first night the single "Le courage des oiseaux" was broadcast, it sparked dozens of Minitel reactions from captivated listeners: Dominique A had just made his deafening and confidential entry into the world of French song. He was 23 years old. Since then, his notoriety has continued to grow and his importance has been confirmed. Miossec, Yann Tiersen, Cali or Delerm: all claim inspiration from the fierce, melancholic and chiseled grace of the singer, a true magnetic pole or cardinal landmark.